Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Advances, 35(9), p. 20341-20344, 2019
DOI: 10.1039/c9ra03902c
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One-pot conversion of glucose to ethyl levulinate over an acid-functionalised hydrothermal carbon gives high initial yields up to 37 mol% (comparable to H2SO4) with catalyst performance strongly influenced by green solvent choice.